# bura
## Azerbaijani
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /burɑ/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

bura
* here, this place.
    Bura qalmalı yer deyil ― This (place) is not a place where one can live
    Bura hər hansısa filmdən bir fraqment deyil, bura Suriyadır ― This (place) is not a fragment from a movie, this (place) is Syria
    Bura Spartadır! ― This is Sparta!

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

From a reduction of buraya, singular dative of bura.

#### Adverb

bura
* to here, to this place, hither.
    bura mənim toçkamdır, heç kim bura gəlməsinThis is my spot, no one should come here

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

Probably ultimately from Latin boreas < Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās). Compare Italian borea, Romanian bură, Venetan bura.

### Noun

bura f
* north wind

## Gamilaraay
### Noun

bura
* bone

## Garo
### Etymology

Borrowed from Bengali বুড়ো (buṛō).

### Noun

bura
* elder

#### Derived terms

* buraa

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /búː.ɽáː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [búː.ɽáː]

### Noun

būrā f (possessed form būrar̃)
* penis
    Synonyms: azzakari, bindi, jela, wutsiya

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbuːrɒ]
* Hyphenation: bu‧ra

### Noun

bura
* Superseded spelling of búra.

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Section 45 in A magyar helyesírás szabályai, 12. kiadás (’The Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2015. →ISBN

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay bura.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbura]
* Hyphenation: bu‧ra

### Verb

bura
* to spit (said of snakes)

### Further reading

* “bura” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Japanese
### Romanization

bura
* Rōmaji transcription of ブラ

## Juba Arabic
### Etymology

Borrowed from a local language. Compare Acholi bura, Dinka bura, Didinga buura.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbuɾa/, [ˈbʊ.ɾa]

### Noun

bura
* cat
    Synonym: kadiis

### References

* Ian Smith, Morris Timothy Ama (1985) A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English‎, 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 127

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* būris

### Etymology

From Etruscan 𐌐𐌖𐌓𐌀 (pura, “plough beam”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈbuː.ra/, [ˈbuːrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈbu.ra/, [ˈbuːrä]

### Noun

būra f (genitive būrae); first declension
* beam of a plough

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Italian: bure

### References

* “bura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* bura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* “bura”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
* “bura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “bura”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
* “bura”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
* ↑ McInerney, Jeremy (2014): A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

## Latvian
### Etymology

Cognate to Lithuanian bùrė (“sail”). Ultimately perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to swell”) (whence also bozt) with a suffix -rā- whence Proto-Baltic *burā- whence the Latvian term with the initial meaning of “that which inflates”. It is possible that the Lithuanian term is a borrowing from Latvian (Nieminen, Fraenkel). Of the same origin are the dialectal terms būra, būris (“crowd”), compare Lithuanian būrỹs (“crowd”), Sanskrit भूरि (bhū́ri, “plentiful; numerous”). [The usual meaning of būris (“cage”) is unrelated, this is a borrowing from Middle Low German.]
A different opinion (Pokorny, Endzelīns) is that this term is to be linked with Ancient Greek φᾶρος (phâros), later form φάρος (pháros, “fabric, canvas”) from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to weave”) or, according to a different opinion (Mikola, Nieminen, Fraenkel), the term is borrowed from Livonian pūŗaz (< *purri), compare Finnish purje (“id.”) However, no forms with p- have been recorded in Latvian dialects.
This term was introduced in the literary language (from some dialect) during the 1870s by K. Valdemārs, before that the typical term for a sail was zēģele, from Middle Dutch zegel or Middle Low German segel (“sail”). Karulis assumes that bura must have been a Curonian word noting similarities with the Kursenieki (Latvian language enclaves around the Curonian Lagoon, former East Prussia) terms bur(-a) and burpils “crooked or hollowed out piece of wood for sprinkling sails with water”, where -pils from pilt “to bail (i.e., scoop water)”.

### Pronunciation

IPA: [bura]
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### Noun

bura f (4th declension)
* sail

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “bura”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎ (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

## Malay
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buʀah, from Proto-Austronesian *buʀəS.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bu.ra/
* (Johor-Riau) IPA: [ˈburä], [ˈburə]
* Rhymes: -ura, -ra, -a

### Verb

bura (Jawi spelling بورا)
* to spit out; to eject
* to spray
* (Singapore) to be chucked out
* to pillory

#### Derived terms

Regular affixed derivations:
* pembura [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
* membura [agent focus] (meN-)
* memburakan [agent focus + causative benefactive] (meN- + -kan)
* dibura [patient focus] (di-)
* diburakan [patient focus + causative benefactive] (di- + -kan)
* terbura [agentless action] (teR-)
* berbura [stative / habitual] (beR-)
Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:
* naga bura
* ular bura

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: bura

### Further reading

* “bura” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Old Norse
### Noun

bura
* genitive plural of burr

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbu.ra/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ura
* Syllabification: bu‧ra
* Homophone: Bura

### Etymology 1

Back-formation from burka.

#### Noun

bura f
* (colloquial) rebuke
    Synonyms: obryw, obskok, ochrzan, opeer, reprymenda

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

bura
* feminine nominative/vocative singular of bury

### Further reading

* bura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* bura in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego/bura on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource $^{pl}$

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* бура (bura) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

### Etymology

Possibly a substrate word.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buˈra/
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: bu‧ra

### Verb

a bura (third-person singular present burează, past participle burat) 1st conjugation
* to drizzle

#### Derived terms

* burare

### References

* Paliga, Sorin (2024) An Etymological Dictionary of the Romanian Language, New York: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 206

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* bora (Surmiran)

### Noun

bura f (plural buras)
* (sports, Sutsilvan) ball

#### Synonyms

* (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) balla

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *buřa, akin to Bulgarian and Russian буря (burja), Slovene burja, Slovak búrka and búrať (“to crush”). Non-Slavic cognates include Old Norse byrr (“fair wind”), Latin furō (“I rage, rave”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “to stir, palpitate”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bûra/
* Hyphenation: bu‧ra

### Noun

bȕra f (Cyrillic spelling бу̏ра)
* bora (wind)
    Bura jača. ― The bora is growing strong.
    Bura slabi. ― The bora is growing weak.
* (figuratively) an event that causes much stir, passion and changes
    Njen dolazak je izazvao buru negodovanja. ― Her arrival caused a lot of disapproval.

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “bura”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Swedish
### Etymology

bur (“cage”) +‎ -a

### Verb

bura (present burar, preterite burade, supine burat, imperative bura)
* Only used in bura in

#### Conjugation
### References

* bura in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish borrar (“to erase”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /buˈɾa/ [bʊˈɾa]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: bu‧ra

#### Noun

burá (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇ)
* erasure
    Synonyms: payi, pawi, pahi
* vociferous outburst of anger or displeasure
    Synonyms: takap, busa

##### Derived terms

* bumura
* burahan
* burahin
* mabura
* magbura
* pambura
* tagabura

#### Adjective

burá (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇ)
* erased; rubbed out
    Synonyms: pawi, katkat, payi, burado

##### Related terms

* burado

### Etymology 2

See boda.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbuɾa/ [ˈbuː.ɾɐ]
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Syllabification: bu‧ra

#### Noun

bura (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇ) (dialectal, Batangas)
* Alternative form of boda

### Further reading

* “bura”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* ubra

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بورا (bura), equivalent to bu +‎ -ra.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bura (definite accusative burayı, plural buralar)
* (colloquial) this place here.
** 1965, Aziz Nesin, “Basbayağı Bir Kadri”, reprinted in Sosyalizm Geliyor Savulun, Nesin Yayıncılık, 2019, page 22:
    Hiç öyle bir namlı topçu, bura takımında oynamaya tenezzül eder mi?Would such a famous footballer deign to play on the local team?

#### Usage notes

Formerly in common use, this noun is used as such only colloquially in present-day Turkish, and then only to refer to places of lesser importance, like some backwoods town. Several of its inflected forms, however, are commonly used, mainly as adverbs.

#### Derived terms

* burada
* buralarda
* burası
* buraya

## Yoruba
### Etymology

From bú (“to insult, to hurl invectives”) +‎ ara (“body”), literally “to hurl invectives at one's self”.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bú.ɾā/

### Verb

búra
* (transitive) to swear, to take an oath, to forswear

#### Derived terms

* búra-èké (“to perjure”)
* búrafún (“to conduct a formal oath”)
* ìbúra (“oath”)